Not to encourage this thread any further, but doesn't it strike anyone
as odd that people unfamiliar with the concept of automated mailing
lists manage to get themselves subscribed in the first place, much
less to technically-oriented ones? They can't have gotten here by
sending "SSSSUUUBBBBBSSSSSCCCCRRIIIBBBBEEEE" to everyone on the list.
Yeesh. I believe that would be why the attitude.
To reach these people, you'd probably have to use an all-caps banner
at the beginning of each message, explaining that they're on an
automated list, that the URL is where they should go to remove
themselves or get more information, and that no human person is likely
to do it for them. Footers don't work if they aren't verbose enough
or people don't scroll down, and mail headers don't work if mail
clients hide them.
Of course this all looks pretty silly in web archives or thru a news
gateway. If this list is news-gatewayed, the email unsubscription
procedure could most thoroughly confuse a casual news reader (say, for
example, someone who uses Deja) who happens to have "subscribed" to
the newsgroup instead of the list.
--Robby
Peter Petrakis writes:
>You could try clicking on the hyperlink ...
>https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list
>
>scrolling to the bottom of the page.
>
>...
>
>And notice where it mentions "unsubscribe"
>
>
>Peter
>
>|-> -----Original Message-----
>|-> From: Phil [mailto:minimi@camden.rutgers.edu]
>|-> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 7:37 PM
>|-> To: axp-list@redhat.com
>|-> Subject: Re: How to clean lastlog
>|->
>|->
>|-> I'm not sure who you were writing to or why the attitude
>|-> but there's nothing on the
>|-> bottom of the messages that I've been receiving that say
>|-> how to unsubscribe. Phil
>|->
>|-> Rich Payne wrote:
>|->
>|-> > If you'd bother to take the time to read the bottom of
>|-> the message you'd
>|-> > see how to unsubscribe. All your doing at the moment is
>|-> wasting everybody
>|-> > else's time and looking like an idiot.
>|-> >
>|-> > It really isn't that difficult!
>|-> >
>|-> > --rdp
>|-> >
>|-> > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Deja User wrote:
>|-> >
>|-> > > UUUUUNNNNSSSSUUUUBBBBSSSSCCCRRRRIIIIIBBBBBEEEEEE
>|-> > >
>|-> > > >Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 00:43:11 +0100 (MET)
>|-> > > >From: Reinier Bikker <R.P.Bikker@phys.uu.nl>
>|-> > > >To: <axp-list@redhat.com>
>|-> > > >Subject: Re: How to clean lastlog
>|-> > > >Reply-To: axp-list@redhat.com
>|-> > > >
>|-> > > >
>|-> > > >: I don't think I've ever seen logrotate run as a
>|-> daily from the default
>|-> > > >: redhat 5.0, 5.2, 6.0, or 6.2 installations. I've
>|-> always seen it run on the
>|-> > > >: weekly cron.
>|-> > > >:
>|-> > > >Nop, the logrotate script it has been in
>|-> /etc/cron.daily in every RH
>|-> > > >version i've run, that is since 4.2, both on intel and alpha.
>|-> > > >
>|-> > > >The logrotate.conf itself defines the rates at which
>|-> files are rotated, if
>|-> > > >that is what you mean.
>|-> > > >
>|-> > > >
>|-> > > >Reinier.
>|-> > > >
>|-> > > >
>|-> > > >
>|-> > > >_______________________________________________
>|-> > > >Axp-list mailing list
>|-> > > >Axp-list@redhat.com
>|-> > > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list
>|-> > >
>|-> > >
>|-> > >
>|-> > >
>|-> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
>|-> > > --== Sent via Deja.com ==--
>|-> > > http://www.deja.com/
>|-> > >
>|-> > >
>|-> > >
>|-> > >
>|-> > > _______________________________________________
>|-> > > Axp-list mailing list
>|-> > > Axp-list@redhat.com
>|-> > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list
>|-> > >
>|-> >
>|-> > --
>|-> > Rich Payne
>|-> > rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org
>|-> >
>|-> > _______________________________________________
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>|-> > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list
>|->
>|->
>|->
>|-> _______________________________________________
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>|->
>
>
>
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